until you zoom out

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      US has <1000 HIMARS and can only fire 6 normal artillery or 1-2 “state of the art” ballistic missiles

      This would bankrupt their inventory lol

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          Giving a single overseas country ~18% of one of your best artillery systems and 100% of yearly production is insane btw

          Also Russia is firing 10,000 rockets every DAY. Those 9 waves of 1k isn’t that much

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              The US mobilized thousands of tanks to invade Iraq during the Gulf War. You don’t see the difference here?

              Cause they were using it themselves. Big difference between giving it to another country

              Also just completely ignoring Russia is at least one full generation ahead of any other country when it comes to air defence

              Idk why I’m having this military debate I don’t even have any interest or research this, it’s just so wrong come onnnn

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              10000 artillery shells, yes, but certainly not precision guided rocket projectiles that can surgically strike critical infrastructures behind enemy lines.

              If the tactic is to overwhelm Russia’s air defenses with a massive salvo of rockets, the fact that the tiny number of rockets Ukraine could launch are precision guided is irrelevent.

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              Ukraine is using their scare himars missiles to strike at bus stops and shops in Donetsk instead of “surgically strike critical infrastructures behind enemy lines.” so they either have more experience in what those missiles can actually do than you or think bus stops are critical infrastructure.

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      a synchronized launch of 2000 state-of-the-art HIMARS rockets

      Just on a practical level alone, Ukraine got sent at most around 40 of those systems and each one can only fire a 6 rocket salvo.

      The US would need to send almost 5x-10x more HIMARS systems than they did. They wiki says over 540 built so at best you’re talking sending like 60-80% of all HIMARS systems to Ukraine.

      Considering how many of these are not even in the US…

      But sure there are other things the west could have done I agree.

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      and dealing significant blow to the bulk of the Russian military, if not triggering a rout completely.

      This is how Ukraine can still win!